Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

SolarWinds has launched AI by Design, a dynamic framework for integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into our IT management solutions. AI by Design consists of four fundamental principles: Privacy and Security, Accountability and Fairness, Transparency and Trust, and Simplicity and Accessibility. In the second installment in our series exploring this exciting new paradigm, we’ll examine how SolarWinds places the safety of our customers’ data at the center of our strategy for ethical AI.

At GrafanaCON last month, we announced Grafana Alloy, our open source distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector. Alloy is a telemetry collector that is 100% OTLP compatible and offers native pipelines for OpenTelemetry and Prometheus telemetry formats, supporting metrics, logs, traces, and profiles. Today, we are excited to share that Grafana Beyla is now available in Grafana Alloy as the default eBPF-based application auto-instrumentation solution.

The common thread among teams responsible for maintaining IT services is their reliance on a deep understanding of the IT environment. Teams need access to all types of critical data to keep systems running. While it seems straightforward, ITOps teams face many challenges in locating, accessing, and synthesizing enough data to fully understand an incident’s cause and establish a remediation plan.

DISA STIGs are an important compliance standard. There’s a security technical implementation guide (STIG) for almost every kind of technology in an IT environment, and each STIG can include hundreds of individual settings, configurations, and recommendations for ensuring compliance and security.

Software development and delivery requires cross-team collaboration and cross-service orchestration—all while ensuring that organizational standards for quality, security, and compliance are consistently met. Without careful monitoring, you risk a lack of visibility into delivery workflows, making it difficult to evaluate how they impact release velocity and stability, developer experience, and application performance.

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is the base of communication on the Web, allowing the transfer of hypermedia documents between web clients (browsers) and servers. This article will look at the inner workings of HTTP, explaining its client-server model, request and response formats, and its stateless nature.

Hybrid cloud environments, combining on-premises resources and public cloud, are essential for competitive, agile, and scalable modern networks. However, they bring the challenge of observability, requiring a comprehensive monitoring solution to understand network traffic across different platforms. Kentik provides a unified platform that offers end-to-end visibility, crucial for maintaining high-performing and reliable hybrid cloud infrastructures.

Komodor’s own Marino Wijay and other community members share insights from KubeCon EU 2024, exploring the latest developments in cloud-native technology and their experiences. Marino and the team will be having discussions on emerging trends, innovative solutions, and more in this engaging session.

Running a Kubernetes cluster includes keeping an eye on it to make sure your apps and services are healthy. You don’t want to be staring at a bunch of Kubernetes dashboards all day, though. You want to set up kubernetes alerting with appropriate alerts instead, right? With k8s alerts, you will spot problems quickly in your Kubernetes cluster and hopefully fix them quickly as well. But what should you alert on? Here are the top 10 most important alerts you should set up for your Kubernetes cluster.

In today’s time, most businesses use cloud-native technologies and digital infrastructure to stay ahead of their competitors. The excessive dependency on these technologies is resulting in a distributed IT infrastructure that is quite challenging to manage and grow without the right tools and practices. Ensuring proper health and performance of IT infrastructure is crucial to achieving organizational goals and keeping end-users satisfied. This is where infrastructure Monitoring comes into practice.